englischThe study about Youth Services in Criminal Proceedings 2022, a quantitative online institutional survey of youth services in this field, provides empirical data for an important task of youth services in Germany. The following questions, e.g., are answered: How is youth services in criminal [...]

englischIt is well known that cases of organized crime are particularly difficult from an investigative point of view. What is less well known, however, is that the legal assessment often leads to problems as well. This work addresses this gap in research and focuses on problems of participation [...]

englischSexual offending is a hot topic in many countries. Besides punishment, treatment is widespread to reduce reoffending. However, there is much controversy about treatment. Meta-analyses have shown mean positive effects, but these are often small and sometimes negative in prisons. As they [...]

englischThis book is the result of a study on the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and the respective measures from a comparative perspective. The phenomenon triggered an international panic after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. Fear and panic, especially when unprecedented, severe, or [...]

englischThe thesis subjects the use of alcohol and cannabis to a comparative criminological and normative examination. The criminological study analyzes empirical findings on the extent and effects of the consumption of alcohol and cannabis. The normative analysis examines the various (mainly [...]

englischThe "undercriminalized" criminality of the politically and economically powerful actors is the focus of the work. The connections between economic policy issues and forms of structural violence are presented as the context of this criminality. Activities, interactions of interests and [...]

englischAlthough Graffiti prevention is typically sprayer-centered, some municipalities are implementing a victim-centered approach as well. Instead of providing “legal spray areas,” a victim-centered approach offers financial support to homeowners who choose to remove illegal graffiti, thus [...]

englischWhether hooliganism, a field of "serious games of competition" in which masculine domination prevails, is in crisis against the background of far-reaching processes of social change, since emancipatory progress has occurred and a certain number of women are violently involved in hooliganism, [...]

englischPreventing crime before it happens? This enticing narrative is no longer just science fiction. Computer-aided systems designed to predict criminal behaviour are used worldwide. The author explores the effects of this technology on society from a legal and criminological perspective. She [...]

englischLarge regional differences in sentencing are a long-known problem in Germany. In his work, the author examines whether and how Artificial Intelligence can be used to achieve an improvement. In doing so, he first embarks on a journey to other countries in Europe and the world where technical [...]

englischThis study deals for the first time with evaluation questions in connection with the activities of the control units in accordance with § 197a SGB V, because the phenomenon of Healthcare-fraud as well as the demand for evidence-based crime prevention is increasingly becoming part of the [...]

englischThe dissertation contributes to a better understanding of „cyber-grooming“ and section 176(4) No 3 German Criminal Code: Its initial, empirical part indicates that - contrary to popular opinion – youngsters and adolescents appear as offenders in a considerable number of cases of [...]

englischPreventing crime before it happens? This enticing narrative is no longer just science fiction. Computer-aided systems designed to predict criminal behaviour are being used worldwide. The author explores the effects of this technology on society with a legal and interdisciplinary approach. [...]

englischJuvenile delinquency is omnipresent and ubiquitous. In times of resource-limited personnel policy, dwindling social control and media-effective appeals for sanctions, how should the judiciary react to typical crimes of young first offenders? Is an informal letter enough to lead the young [...]

englischAs of 7 March 2013, the possibility of combining juvenile detention and a suspended juvenile sentence as regulated in § 16a JGG was added to the system of sanctions under juvenile criminal law. Based on the central arguments in favour and against the so-called “Warnschussarrest”, the author [...]

englischSince the first opened its doors in Miami in 1989, Drug Treatment Courts have spread throughout the United States of America and have also been adopted internationally. However, in Germany, this phenomenon has remained almost completely unknown in criminological and criminal literature.

Dr [...]

Tag für Tag werden strafrechtliche Verurteilungen „im Namen des Volkes“ ausgesprochen. Was ist damit gemeint? Geht es (auch) um tatsächlich vorhandene Strafbedürfnisse und Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen der Bevölkerung? Kann man diese mit empirischen Methoden verlässlich ermitteln? Und lässt es sich [...]

englischThe German Federal Constitutional Court put an end to the constant expansion of the rules for preventive detention on 04.05.2011 by declaring all legal provisions in this respect to be unconstitutional. The court justified its reasons for this ruling using decisions made by the European [...]

englischAfter the ECHR declared the extension of preventive detention beyond the ten year maximum period in breach of the Convention, the Constitutional Court recognised the incompatibility of retrospective measures with the doctrine of legitimate expectation. This prompted a reform of the law with [...]

englischSince 2009, the German criminal code has contained a far-reaching accomplice evidence rule (“Kronzeugenregelung“) in its sec. 46b. In his book, the author deals intensively with different aspects of this recent legal norm. He concentrates both on practical and on dogmatic problems concerning [...]

englischPublished on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Waldheim Prison, this book contains contributions from different authors on topics related to correctional facilities. The subjects discussed range from historical aspects and critical analysis of the efficacy of procedures and practices [...]

englischThis work focuses on an empirical study concerning the Bavarian pilot project on the „Victim-Offender-Mediation in prison“, a procedural option, which is still not commonly used and must be considered as a previously almost unexplored subject. The pilot project´s aim was to examine the [...]

englischThe new preventive detention is put to the test. Due to the earthshaking Federal Constitutional Court decision of May 4th, 2011, new regulations of preventive detention became necessary.

Well over three years after the reform the anthology takes a closer look at the new legal situation in an [...]

englischThe introduction of the so-called warning shot arrest in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2013 was used as occasion to implement social training classes during short detention for young offenders. The implementation and the participants’ recidivism rates were examined. The research is based on a survey [...]

englischThe book aims to contribute to the current discussion on criminal politics in German theory and practice. Focusing on the controversial relations between juvenile criminal justice and youth welfare, this PhD project provides a new perspective on questions of discretionary competence [...]

englischHow and why (former) organizational insiders with insights into corporate or administrational misconduct become Whistleblowers and their actual potential from a controlling point of view is analysed with this qualitative in depth interview study for the first time in the German-speaking [...]

englischThis paper provides perspectives on issues of pastoral care in the penal system, a so far neglected field in the scientific research into the penal system. The author describes the development of prison ministry up until the legal situation to date in the context of the penal system. [...]

englischFor some years now the concept of „moral courage“ is becoming more popular: the term is often found in newspaper headlines and people are awarded for moral courage. The popularity has meanwhile contributed to the implementation of projects under this catch phrase. The authoress examines [...]

englischThe thesis highlights the importance of prison labour during the incarceration for the rehabilitation of offenders both in professional as well as social aspects after their release from prison. It is based on empirical findings, which were obtained from interviews with delinquent persons [...]

englischThe thesis offers deep and instructive insights into the empiric context of forced marriage and a critical discussion of a whole bunch of legislative measures from the area of the penal right, family right and stay right to reduce this phenomenon in Germany.

The work deals first with an [...]

englischThis study, based on legal facts, analyses the manner in which police, prosecutors and courts deal with bias crimes. It shows both flaws in the system used by the police to record politically motivated crime, as well as shortcomings on the side of the courts when the motivation is not taken [...]